Superintendent Elizabeth Robison was not among those to get a raise, according to district spokeswoman Wendy Frable.

Robison earns $150,000, according to a contract she signed in August 2011.

The district tried to give Robison a $20,000 salary bonus last year, but a public outcry ended when she gave the bonus back three days later.

District officials said the raises were to reward the patience of those employees who volunteered to take pay freezes for the last two years while the district worked through the budget crisis that it continues to face.

That crisis has led to the layoffs of more than 400 employees in the last two years.

Included in that total are 37 administrative and management positions that have been reduced or left unfilled, Frable said.

After a preliminary budget for the 2013-14 school year included no tax increase for the second year in a row, the board decided to award the raises.

Technology Integration Specialist Jeremy Sawicki also went from $48,089 to $65,000.

Wendy Frable, who went from Director of Public Information to Director of Public Relations and Compliance Issues, went from a $56,465 salary to $75,000, a 32.8 percent jump.

Other salary adjustments:

Faye Opshinsky had additional duties assigned to her as confidential administrative assistant to the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, according to Robison, and saw her salary go from $38,144 to $43,410 — a rise of 13.8 percent.

Anne Marie Ohmnacht went from finance manager to controller and received a raise from $63,936 to $72,000, a 12.6 percent jump.

Thomas Barbush, formerly principal at East Junior High School, was promoted to principal at West High School and saw his salary jump from $110,403 to $115,875, a raise of almost 5 percent.

Robison said those who received salary adjustments got them because of promotions or additional duties they've taken on as positions have been combined as a result of layoffs.

"(I)t was time to adjust their salaries to reflect the important work they are doing for this district," she said.

George Strunk and Jacquelyn Leonard were two school board members to grudgingly go along with the raises.

Strunk said he waffled on the raises and didn't make a final decision until the board meeting where the raises were approved.

"We just can't keep doing this, giving away money we won't have in the future," he said.